Guardian Music — This week Jon Savage and Warpaint blogged for us following the sad news that the Slits singer had died. Elsewhere: expensive singles and fantastic band namesFive things we learned from the blog•The sad news of Ari Up's passing reminded Jon Savage w... more info

Yahoo! Music UK — world entertainment news - Singer Kate Nash has paid tribute to late The Slits rocker Ari Up, crediting the punk star with shaping her musical tastes. more info

DrownedInSound — The lead singer of The Slits Ari Up (aka Arianna Forster) died on Wednesday this week after a serious illness, believed to be cancer. She was 48. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Guardian Music — Emily Kokal supported the Slits with her band Warpaint. She describes how Ari Up helped her find a voice, and how she felt when she first saw the cover for CutI heard the Slits a lot when I was growing up, through my parents and their friends, but I ... more info

ContactMusic — British singer KATE NASH has paid tribute to late THE SLITS rocker ARI UP, crediting the punk star with shaping her musical tastes.Up, Sex Pistols rocker John... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — She followed her muse without concern for the marketplace, and steadfastly railed against the status quo.She followed her muse without concern for the marketplace, and steadfastly railed against the status quo. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Suggesting that one musician or band is “more punk” than another is a fool’s game, but in the world of rebel rock, Ari Up (born Arianna Forster), who died Wednesday at age 48 after a long fight with cancer, was,... more info

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XLR8R — Frontwoman of pioneering all-girl punk outfit The Slits Ariane "Ari-Up" Forester (a number of different spellings for her proper name appear across the web and from official sources) died yesterday after battling with what has only been described as ... more info

Guardian Music — The Slits frontwoman, she helped to reinvent women's role in musicThe singer Ari Up, who has died after an unspecified illness aged 48, was the idiosyncratic frontwoman of the Slits, the British punk band formed in 1976. With her bird's-nest hair, gu... more info